Bunny's TTA Space Wreck

**ARMORMAN** · #1 11-30-2008, 07:24 PM

Hey all, this was my holiday project.

As you know, I am a big fan of the old TTA series books and just recently repurchased the last of the series.

I attached a pic of the original painting as well as pics of my build.

This model was designed by Bunny and is still available for DL from cardmodels.net.

I love the fact that it was designed off a single piece of art and that it uses the painting as the texture maps. I also liked the effectiveness of fold-over parts to give texture to both sides. It is relatively simple, but it suffers from the fact that the designer basically made a forced perspective model from the art.

The instructions are hand drawn, but with the provided photos of the finished model, it is fairly straightforward.

I added a lot of extras to make it more pleasing (and a bit more accurate).
This includes a control panel, backside wing, resizing the pilot to 80% original size to match the scale of the painting, seat belts and harnesses (to give a reason for a skeleton to still be sitting upright - kudos for the design, BTW) Extension parts for the cockpit area and fuselage, rusty skeletal frame, doubling the size of the base, paper claying the support for the wreck and flocking over the base as well as trimming the edge of the base to reinforce it.

I would recommend using a Prismacolor Tuscan red and medium brown marker for making of rusty pieces and edging.

All in all an enjoyable and simple (if you do it "out of the box") build.

B

**whulsey** · #2 11-30-2008, 08:30 PM

For us non-knowledge ones, could you give a bit of background on TTA series please?

**ARMORMAN** · #3 12-01-2008, 03:55 AM

TTA (Terran Trade Authority) Books were a series of 4 books created by Stewart Cowley in the late 70's. He had contracted a group of artists to make some science fiction paintings around which he wrote a history of man's expansion to the stars.

More info can be found here:

Terran Trade Authority Books

**whulsey** · #4 12-01-2008, 07:14 PM

Thanks, I was looking for something else and discovered what TTA stood for. That gave me a chance to go to the Wiki and find some info on it. I used to read a lot of SF, but more the hardcore novel and Analog Magazine type stuff, so a lot of the other stuff slipped under my radar.

**willygoat** · #5 12-01-2008, 08:52 PM

While I have never heard of this before, I can say that you completely NAILED the model. It matches the original painting perfectly. Great work armorman:D

**whitney lee preston** · #6 09-02-2009, 06:34 AM

ARMORMAN - You ROCK !!!
Have you made any attempts on anything else from the TTA universe ?
Now correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't this illustration an error to
the story it was attached to...? The Glooms and their great God Chalee...?
That race was cyclopian, just like the skeletal remains on the TTA cover.

**ARMORMAN** · #7 09-02-2009, 12:24 PM

Thanks,

You are correct....the Glooms were cyclopian.

I made the Interstellar Queen for a friend and there was a Piranha made as well.

I have all 3 model files, but as I was not the designer, I have not posted them here.

**airdave** · #8 09-02-2009, 01:11 PM

beautiful!

**ARMORMAN** · #9 09-02-2009, 01:29 PM

A friend of mine wanted to practice his photography skills; so he borrowed this and my Titan wreck dio and shot pics.....

**Retired_for_now** · #10 09-02-2009, 03:48 PM

Now that's art!

Yogi